The entrapments of form : cruelty and modern literature / Catherine Toal.
By: Toal, Catherine [author.]
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BookEdition: First edition.Description: 172 pages ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780823269341 (hardback); 9780823269358 (paper).Subject(s): French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Cruelty in literature | Modernism (Literature) -- France | Modernism (Literature) -- United States | LITERARY CRITICISM / GeneralDDC classification: 840.9/353
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Summary: "This book describes the narrative form of cruelty in modern literature. It focuses on the two main literary traditions that carry the legacy of revolutionary upheaval in modernity, the French and the American, and shows the transfers of influence that create the contemporary outline of the concept"--
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The "Strange and Familiar Word" -- Chapter 1: The Forms of the Perverse -- Chapter 2: "Some Things Which Could Never Have Happened" -- Chapter 3: Murder and "Point of View" -- Chapter 4: The Marquis de Sade in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 5: American Cruelty.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-168) and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The "Strange and Familiar Word" -- Chapter 1: The Forms of the Perverse -- Chapter 2: "Some Things Which Could Never Have Happened" -- Chapter 3: Murder and "Point of View" -- Chapter 4: The Marquis de Sade in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 5: American Cruelty.
"This book describes the narrative form of cruelty in modern literature. It focuses on the two main literary traditions that carry the legacy of revolutionary upheaval in modernity, the French and the American, and shows the transfers of influence that create the contemporary outline of the concept"--
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